This week has seen some great progress made to the Battleground Europe host stability issues that arose with the live release of version 1.34. The binaries on the Beta server have been updated and it's running smoothly. Server downtime and CTD's have dropped dramatically over the past few days and will be reduced even more with the host and client updates coming. Read on for more information about next week's schedule.

The team has already pinpointed and fixed several problems that were causing both the chat server crashes as well as some CTDs. But there is more to do. So sometime early next week, the live server will be brought down for an OS update, host binary update, and a client update. We still have a few things to hammer out before we can pull the trigger, so we're not able to give you the exact day yet. As soon as we know, you'll know. We do know that the server will need to be down for the better part of a day to perform all the updates and make sure they are functioning properly.

There is currently a new test client release available. This is a voluntary download for those wanting to test and help us ensure we've fixed the biggest connection issues. The more people that help test it, the better. This is not a beta client, it's intended for play on the live server. It is an executable file (includes an installer and an uninstaller) with connection fixes for testing on the live server and can be found in the Testing And Bug Reporting Forum.

"I want to thank everyone who's been helping in the testing forum and doing .reports. This greatly increases our ability to find and squish these connection issues. The good new is that the finish line looks to be in sight. Thank you all again for you help and support."- GOPHUR

We're also working on a beta client that includes data fixes (see read me below) and will be running on the new host OS we plan to release next week. Watch the Twitter and Facebook feeds for notice of availability.

Have a great weekend...S!

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